I have played with the Cache-Limit line to no avail. Currently it is sitting at
APT::Cache-Limits 134217728; If it is becuase I am running out of disk space, here are my disk free: /dev/hda9 1446780 1306372 140408 91% /var I used to be able to fix this by gradually removing lines from my sources.list, but now I am down to the minimum I can cope with. I have 1304 packages installed, according to dpkg --get-selections | grep ' install' | wc -l trying an strace on the apt-get update process eventaully locks up (does this mean there is a potential race condition in apt-get?): [pid 19942] read(6, "201 URI Done\nURI: http://mirror.";..., 4000) = 264 Hit http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au unstable/non-free Release..., 73 ) = 73 [pid 19942] gettimeofday({1043577064, 49024}, NULL) = 0 [pid 19942] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [WINCH], [], 8) = 0 [pid 19942] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 97% [Working]) = 14, "\r97% [Working]", 14 [pid 19942] gettimeofday({1043577064, 49374}, NULL) = 0 ) = 15 rite(1, "\r \r", 15 [pid 19942] close(5) = 0 [pid 19942] close(8 <unfinished ...> [pid 19944] <... select resumed> ) = 1 (in [0]) [pid 19942] <... close resumed> ) = 0 [pid 19944] read(0, <unfinished ...> [pid 19942] kill(19944, SIGINT <unfinished ...> [pid 19944] <... read resumed> "", 4000) = 0 [pid 19942] <... kill resumed> ) = 0 [pid 19944] --- SIGINT (Interrupt) --- [pid 19942] wait4(19944, so I don't know how to debug this further. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ "Perhaps the truth is less interesting than the facts?" -- Amy Weiss, RIAA's Senior Vice President of Communications
